Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Sweet Baby

Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy! December has arrived!! I'm so not ready! My Christmas cards are not even close to being done! But thanks to Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra, I do have a very good start on them. All that as a shameless promotion of CHNCC2's newest challenge that start today! As always, it is Anything (Christmas-related) Goes! And our sponsor, Bugaboo Stamps is offering 7 images: winner's choice. Here is my card for your inspiration:

I was inspired by the Shopping Our Stash challenge to create a background using the Bargello Technique. I've never given this a try before and as I knew I had a bunch of thin paper strips that needed using up, I decided to go for it. It's hard to see it in the picture of the finished card, so I took a picture before I added the focal panel and embellishments.

Kind of a fun look, huh? I think it might have worked a little bit better if my papers hadn't had white backgrounds. Maybe next time. But for now, hop on over to the CHNCC2 blog to see what the rest of the DT has created. Then get inky and play along with us; it's time to finish up those Christmas cards!

21 comments:

Lovely card Heather, and what a great technique, I haven't heard of a Bargello Background before, once I have a little extra time I must give it a ago. Love the colours you used very pretty and this is such a sweet Bugaboo image. Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 and good luck.HugsKathie SSW2~DT

One year (she says hopefully) I WILL be organized and Christmas won't be such the panic fest that it's become in recent years. Your lovely card is an inspiration to me to get my act together and finish up my cards for the season. I love that darling image and your background is fantastic.